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Dolby Digital TV channels won't play audio

Last post by Browneagle « Mon May 29, 2023 9:22 pm
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by Browneagle » Sun May 28, 2023 12:53 am

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I installed WMC 8.9.1 Installation MSI on a fresh WIndows 10 install. Everything went smoothly, however if I play a HD channel with Dolby Digital Plus the audio gets stuck on a 1 sec loop then crashes the player.
Dobly Digital is bitstreaming fine in VLC so it's not a audio driver problem.
I tried...

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So I got so frustrated that I started again from scratch. Windows 10 fresh install, then the Hauppauge drivers, then Nvidia graphics and Nvidia HDMI audio. Then Media Center set up choosing Stereo rather than 5.1, the first time. This time Dolby Digital bitstreams perfecting.

It seems like if you...

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Mon May 29, 2023 9:22 pm
W7->W10 Upgrade: TV Setup Error- Tuner Drivers?

Last post by Wheeker « Mon May 29, 2023 4:30 pm
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by Wheeker » Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:58 pm

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So I have always held-back on upgrading from W7 to W10 because I still use WMC. However once I realised @garyan2 had created a W10 WMC & that MS were still offering a free W7->W10 upgrade, I thought I would take the plunge. All seemed to go well, until the TV Setup & whereas usually I would get...

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I'm sorry, I don't have anything constructive to add other than to advise that an in-place upgrade is a terrible idea.
You should really consider backing up your critical data.
Then, format and do a fresh install of Windows 10.

Otherwise, this won't be the only issue you run into.
In place...

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Last post by Wheeker
Mon May 29, 2023 4:30 pm
WMC 8.9.1 Installation MSI Released

Last post by cvanwormer « Mon May 29, 2023 2:44 pm
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by garyan2 » Sat Jan 28, 2023 5:23 am
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I just released version 8.9.1 of the WMC installer for Win8.1/10/11. This version is based on both 8.8.5 and v13 by @technodevotee to perhaps give a better experience along with a couple fixes needed that I didn't know about until earlier this month.

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This post is a response to #40Post by Space » Sun May 28, 2023 4:15 pm

The change happened with the 8.9.1 update. The M: drive is not full. It is a 2T internal SATA drive with 200G free. We have made no changes to the system after the update (which went fast and smoothly - except for some...
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Mon May 29, 2023 2:44 pm
PlayReady Issues After Fresh install of Windows 10

Last post by sunnyevw « Sun May 28, 2023 1:38 pm
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by WINDOWSMCEIT » Tue Jan 24, 2023 12:24 am

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Hello everyone,

I am running a fresh install of WINDOWS 10 PRO X64 with WINDOWS MCE 8.9.0 and Playready 1.3.10 (Manually installed). The problem I am having is whenever i am prompted to update PLAYREADY it says it cannot connect
to the internet. Even though I have tried to turn off the WINDOWS...

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Discoveries after 3rd day of fixing (probably mostly true-from scribbled notes):
Starting with no PrintReady (PR) installed:
First time - ResetDRM, uninstall WMC (reboot), install WMC, LiveTV works!. Using remote, changed cable box to On Demand channel and started receiving PlayReady errors. After...

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Last post by sunnyevw
Sun May 28, 2023 1:38 pm
WMC 8.8.5 MSI Installation Package for Win10/11

Last post by sunnyevw « Sun May 28, 2023 12:56 am
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by garyan2 » Sun Feb 13, 2022 5:14 pm
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I am surprised no one has done this earlier, but I have created an MSI installation package for WMC 8.8.5. This package has a lot of benefits that we don't get from the zip package we have been using for quite a while. I have it working without issue on Win10 and Win11 for ATSC. You can download it...

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you can just go the Windows Apps and click 'Modify' on Windows Media Center and choose to repair the installation.

I'm running windows 11 22H2. The Modify option in Add/Remove Programs is greyed out, leaving only the uninstall. Is this expected?
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Sun May 28, 2023 12:56 am
WMC on Windows 11?

Last post by stuartm « Thu May 11, 2023 5:18 pm
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by 1ST1 » Fri Jun 25, 2021 8:30 am
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Anybody out there already tested, if WMC would still run on Win 11?

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Cablecard tuners have not worked on Win 10 since an early release. There is no reason to think that Win 11 will be any diferent. A search through this Win 10 forum will give you the gory details.
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Thu May 11, 2023 5:18 pm
Setting up live tv

Last post by unclebun « Wed May 10, 2023 1:12 pm
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by Megalocade » Mon May 08, 2023 7:27 am

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Hi folks

Does the live tv part of the standalone WMC install work, i wanted to setup live tv but it wants to download the files from Microsoft servers, it stays on that screen and doesnt go any further, i know Microsoft closed thier WMC servers down ages ago so how do i go about setting up live tv

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You still have to refuse the Microsoft guide download to proceed with setup, even if you are not using EPG123.

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Wed May 10, 2023 1:12 pm
Full screen lock-ups

Last post by dmcq « Sat May 06, 2023 5:11 pm
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by Haze » Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:49 pm

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Hi there,

Have been running 8.8.5 flawlessly on various machines for several years now; mucked about with all sorts of combinations of hardware and software and have never ever had a problem before. Until now...

Have been trying to set up a new little HTPC; a dead simple/basic build with a 12100...

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After a lot of trying I have managed to get Intel to admit that they 'forked' development of the UHD driver after Gen 10 CPUs
Gen 7-10 UHD is fine including latest version updates, but Gen 11-13 and I believe some of the newer NUCs fail to black when switching channels with WMC full screen.

Thus...

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Sat May 06, 2023 5:11 pm
Resume playback time not saved when data on network drive

Last post by Space « Thu Apr 20, 2023 12:36 am
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by dustbro » Wed Apr 19, 2023 11:29 pm

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I'm having an issue that I hope you guys have an answer for.
I have recently moved my recorded TV to a network drive. Since that move, WMC doesn't seem to remember what point I have watched a program up to when I try to resume playback. So if I watch a show for 30 minutes and hit stop, it will...

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I don't play recordings from network drives, so I'm not sure about your issue, but if you somehow changed your recording drive to be a network drive, that is not considered to be a good idea.

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Last post by Space
Thu Apr 20, 2023 12:36 am
Extenders on WMC for Windows 10

Last post by technodevotee « Sat Apr 15, 2023 6:20 am
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by nicolade » Fri Apr 14, 2023 9:07 pm

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Hi Guys. I apologize in advance, but I was just wondering if this Windows 10 version of WMC supports extenders?

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I did a load of testing on this and documented it here:

TLDR:
The last combination that Xbox extenders worked on without problems was Windows 10 V1511 and WMC V12.

Even then, there were hoops to jump through.

Third party extenders like the Ceton Echo don't work in any useful way on Windows 8 or...

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Last post by technodevotee
Sat Apr 15, 2023 6:20 am
W10 TV Tuners?

Last post by technodevotee « Thu Apr 13, 2023 3:27 pm
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by Wheeker » Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:05 pm

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What PCI-e TV Tuner cards are people using successfully with W10 MC? Specifically DVB-S2 & DVB-T2. Many thanks.

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I've got a Hauppauge Quad HD PCIe DVB-T2 card in one of my PCs. It works well but as you may be aware, the recordings only have stereo sound in the UK because there's no codec available for WMC to support the ridiculous audio standard we use on DVB-T2 here.

I've got four Hauppauge WinTV Starburst...

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Last post by technodevotee
Thu Apr 13, 2023 3:27 pm
Live TV and WTV files not working

Last post by garyan2 « Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:45 pm
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by r_sauve » Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:51 pm

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Hello all,

I have a Windows 10 22H2 PC running WMC 8.9.1 by GaRyan2 (wmcsetup-x64.msi) along with the the Windows DVD Player app (kb3106246).

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87N-WIFI
TV PCIe card: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2205.
RAM: 10GB DDR3
System drive: SK hynix SC300 2.5 7MM 256GB (SSD)
Media Drive: WDC...

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I think vanilla Win10 will have problems playing wtv files without installing the Windows DVD Player that gets installed with 8.9.x. The DVD Player provides proper drivers for MPEG2 decoding.

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Last post by garyan2
Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:45 pm
Sound stopping and starting - GPU bottleneck?

Last post by technodevotee « Wed Mar 15, 2023 11:58 am
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by technodevotee » Mon Mar 06, 2023 1:51 pm

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Sorry about the length of this post but I need to give some background to the problem I am facing.

I have been using WMC since it came out and have run it on all sorts of PCs with very few issues. I have always found that it performs very well but I am somewhat stumped by what I encountered...

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I've been doing some more research on CPU-GPU matching to avoid bottlenecks and found a calculator on PC-Builds.com which seems to support what I've read so far.

It appears to confirm that an ideal match for my i9 10920X would be something like the AMD Radeo RX6700 xt, which can be had for about...

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Last post by technodevotee
Wed Mar 15, 2023 11:58 am
copyright protection blocks viewing protected cable channels

Last post by StinkyImp « Thu Mar 09, 2023 3:20 pm
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by Mikeyboy » Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:18 pm

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Can’t watch cabletv recordings on same PC it’s recorded on. Just started this morning. Uninstalled WMC, rebooted, reinstalled WMC same issue. Any idea how to fix?
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It's been my understanding that Windows 10 (1511) was the last version of Windows that had all the necessary components to record and playback protected content.

Those that use that version use StopUpdates10 to lock it down.

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Thu Mar 09, 2023 3:20 pm
Remote control and ehtray with 8.8.4 and 1909

Last post by help-me-wmc « Fri Mar 03, 2023 2:55 pm
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by bjm051593 » Thu Jan 02, 2020 4:20 am

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I just did a clean install of 8.8.4 on 1909 and it's working perfectly (so far ;)) except for one issue... I can't get the remote to work in Windows, it works fine in WMC. I noticed that ehtray.exe does not start by default - if I start it manually, the green button works to launch WMC but then if...

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problem resolved -- although ehshell with remote worked perfectly, it appeared that ehshell.exe did not fire up if green button on the remote was used to acheive the fire up

this was because the driver for the IR receiver was not initiated.
To initialise the Human Interface Device {HIM} it is...

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Fri Mar 03, 2023 2:55 pm
Win10 WMC codecs - Intel UHD graphics issues

Last post by garyan2 « Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:34 pm
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by harakan2 » Tue Feb 21, 2023 6:24 pm

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Is there a way to change WMC to use different codecs and/or disable hardware acceleration?

I have WMC10 running on a mini-PC using Intel integrated graphics (11th Gen Intel Core i5-11400H), mostly watching DVB-T2 HD or SD recorded TV (UK).

Using the originally-supplied Intel UHD Graphics driver...

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I can't add too much about the codecs, but in the past I found Shark007 able to correct some issues and add codec compatibility within WMC. It has (did?) some recommended settings specifically for WMC.

For the HDMI switching issue, I had the same problem a long time ago and found that you need to...

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Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:34 pm
DVBLogic with WMC10

Last post by Jacoats « Mon Feb 13, 2023 4:13 pm
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by bittles420 » Sun May 28, 2017 3:37 pm

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Hi folks new here thanks for having me :) first I am running a windows 10 x64 machine with dvblogic 4.6.0 and have installed windows mce numerous versions now and even reset my PC to clean up the mess. What is happening is the dvblink sync in mce extra's does not always install for me...

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Hi all, I’m using dvblink for iptv v3 with w10 and it’s working very well. The only thing I can’t get working are the subtitles. I’ve tried a couple different codecs. No joy. Any one have any tips for me ?

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Mon Feb 13, 2023 4:13 pm
Intermittent garbled sound on OTA (live and recordings) Windows 10

Last post by Edgar_in_Indy « Mon Feb 13, 2023 4:47 am
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by Edgar_in_Indy » Sun Aug 29, 2021 6:40 pm

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I recently updated my living room HTPC from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (fresh install). Everything went pretty well, except that now I get intermittent, but frequent and sometimes persistent, garbled sound on OTA content.

I've searched online several times, and haven't been able to find a solution,...

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The problem came back and I never figured it out until just now. I finally fixed it by replacing my old nvidia 1050ti video card with an AMD RX 580. The 1050 ti worked fine in every other situation, so I guess it must have just been some strange interaction between WMC and my specific video card.

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Last post by Edgar_in_Indy
Mon Feb 13, 2023 4:47 am
Black screen upon waking from sleep

Last post by resarfekim « Fri Feb 10, 2023 5:52 am
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by resarfekim » Sat Dec 10, 2022 7:15 pm

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If I let my computer sleep while WMC is on, on wake-up about half the time the screen will be blank and remote is unresponsive. Most of the time, I can hit the windows key and kill WMC, then everything is normal.
I'm running the latest WMC build, on Windows 11 (latest probably). (my PC is older and...

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I had this and found it was using the default MS graphics driver.

I installed the one from the card vendor and it fixed it.

Thanks for the tip. This apparently fixed my issue! :thumbup:

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Fri Feb 10, 2023 5:52 am
4K Super Bowl LVII

Last post by patrick0525 « Thu Feb 02, 2023 4:15 am
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by patrick0525 » Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:28 am

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In my configuration, this Super Bowl will be a significant milestone in digital TV broadcasting and W10 media center recording. Tonight’s proof of concept below indicates Fios is transmitting 4K on an experimental channel and is twice the network rate for a 1080i channel.
The amazing thing is that...

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Fox NFL Playoff games and the Super Bowl will be available in 4K through several Fox Sports distributors, including Altice Optimum, Comcast Xfinity, Cox Contour TV, DirecTV, Dish, FuboTV, Verizon FIOS and YouTube TV.

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Thu Feb 02, 2023 4:15 am
Cable card tuners and HDHomeRun

Last post by patrick0525 « Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:35 am
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by SpencerC » Sat Jul 30, 2022 3:09 am
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For those of us with a cable card tuner and Windows 10, we've all pretty much given up on WMC. I switched to the HDHomeRun DVR solution. The interface lacked many things that WMC had, that it was a hard switch for me. One of the biggest things it lacked was no grid guide. Over time the interface...

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Gary, the firmware is the tuner firmware. I updated the ota and cable card tuner to the latest firmware. SiliconDust solved my packet loss problem causing video and audio break-up. The new cat6/7 cables are incompatible with my 1gb Realtek nic. Once I returned to my previous cable everything worked...
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Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:35 am
Stuck in 4:3 aspect. Can't get back to 16:9

Last post by Mugsy « Sat Jan 28, 2023 1:25 am

by Mugsy » Sat Jan 28, 2023 1:25 am

I have a widescreen monitor with pivoting stand. While in pivot/portrait mode, I opened the WMC Guide and the window resized to fit the new screen width.

Back in normal Widescreen (landscape) mode, WMC is stuck in a 4 : 3 window. Resizing by width also resizes by height so it remains stuck in 4 :...

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Sat Jan 28, 2023 1:25 am
Windows 8.1, Still getting Update Playready

Last post by MarkGSD « Mon Jan 16, 2023 3:39 am
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by MarkGSD » Sun Jan 15, 2023 9:16 am

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I’ve have downloaded and installed the files from Gary’s wonderful page for my Windows 8.1 system: Windows Media Center, Digital Cable Advisor, Playready 1.3.0, and resetDRM.

When trying to view cable channels with my HDHomeRun PRIME which has a Technicolor/Cisco cable card, I was getting the...

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Thanks for the tip. However when I go to Settings>General>Windows Media Center Setup, it's not one of the choices listed. There's no mention of PlayReady. It's the WMC version 8.9.0 that I downloaded from your fantastic website. Thank you so much for all you do!

I do wish that someone could modify...

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Mon Jan 16, 2023 3:39 am
WMC on ARM64?

Last post by technodevotee « Wed Jan 11, 2023 8:29 am
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by wmcLover45 » Sun Jan 08, 2023 10:11 am

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Hey there. Was wondering if anyone has been able to get WMC to work on ARM64. It installs fine, but when you launch it, it runs and then crashes after 5-10 seconds.

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There's a good write up about this topic on Techchradar here: although its a bit old now, given that WMC is unsupported I don't expect MS will invest any time ensuring that it works on ARM.

Here's an extract:
The state of 64-bit emulation
The way Windows emulates x86 applications in software on...

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Wed Jan 11, 2023 8:29 am
new theme

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by sebas197422 » Thu Apr 28, 2022 5:02 pm

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here i made a new theme :

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Screenshot (33).png It's my new made theme for windows 11 even the cursor is on top of it ! Screenshot (31).png

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